The New, Convoluted Life Cycle Of A Newspaper Story
Posted by Jim Foust in Innovative Sites, Mobile + GPS, Social Media on Jan 3rd, 2012 | 0 commentsJournalist Lauren Rabaino examines newspaper workflow models that incorporate social media and other online tools, and offers examples and suggestions for making multi-platform coverage more reader-friendly.
News must be really hard to follow for an everyday consumer of a newspaper website. First tweets go out, sometimes with no links to additional coverage. Then a few grafs go up on a blog, followed by additional updates, either to the top of that post or as new posts. Eventually, a print story gets started, which is posted through an entirely different workflow onto a different-looking story page.
Occupy Davis, as Covered by High School Journalists
Posted by Jim Foust in Innovative Sites, Mobile + GPS, Social Media on Dec 14th, 2011 | 0 commentsNew York Times blog post about how ambitious high school journalists covered the recent Occupy Davis protests. The students used social media to organize and present their coverage, and their video footage was picked up by national TV networks.
Adobe Abandons Flash for Mobile Devices: Is it the End of Flash?
Posted by Jim Foust in Hardware, Software + Technology, Images + Sound, Mobile + GPS on Nov 10th, 2011 | 0 commentsEarlier this week, Adobe announced it will stop developing the Flash plug-in for mobile browsers. Instead, Adobe will concentrate on developing with HTML 5. This article from HuffingtonPost.com has an overview of what the announcement might mean for Flash’s long-term viability.
Dilbert and “the Grandpa Box”
Posted by Jim Foust in Hardware, Software + Technology, Mobile + GPS on Sep 15th, 2011 | 0 commentsA younger colleague pokes fun at Dilbert for using his desktop computer. “The people in my generation do our work on our phones and tablets.”
Washington Post publisher Weymouth sees new media as ‘them,’ not ‘us’
Posted by Jim Foust in Mobile + GPS, Participatory Journalism, Social Media on Sep 15th, 2011 | 0 commentsWashington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth recently vowed that the Post would embrace the new social tools of journalism but not give up what its journalists have always done. Poynter.org’s Jeff Sonderman is skeptical.
The overall tone, however, was more combative toward what she labeled as “new media.” There was much talk about competition, but little about the benefits of collaboration. On some subjects Weymouth expressed views that were conservative or even a little curmudgeonly.
